Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1885 — WIDENING THE BREACH. [ARTICLE]

WIDENING THE BREACH.

The President’s Work in Sowing Dissension in the Democratic Hanks. * [Washington special to, Indianapolis Journal.] During the past week the President has antagonized two-thirds of the delegations and individuals that have called upon him. First, he started out by recallinglhe“ appointment of the brother of Senator Blackburn as Internal Revenue Collector in Kentucky, because, when a boy, he Wrote a letter of the Jesse James bloocFand-thunder .order, and by revoking this appointment he not only made an enemy of Senator Blackburn, but very naturally oreated dissatisfaction all over the South. By the appointment of Mr. Kuhn to be Appraiser of Customs at Indianapolis the' President dissatisfied a number of his party friends in Indiana. Then fol-lowed-his bad move in lowa, whereby/ in selecting a Marshal for the South; ern district of that State without consulting the delegation in Congress, he has called forth vigorous protests from Messrs. Murphy, Fredericks, and Weaver. George V. N. Lothrop, appointed Minister to Russia, al the request of Don M. Dickinson, of Detroit, was not pleasing to the Michigan Democratic Congressmen. They thought that the President should give their requests some attention, and that, as Mr. Dickinson represents nobody but himself—as they express it—his recommendation certainly should not count for more than that of the Congressional delegation. They do not object to Lothrop per se, but the reason that not satisfied with his appointment is that it lessens the number of appointments left for them. On the whole, the week has produced more than a usual amount of dissatisfaction, and it begins to look as though the man of destiny is destined to make enemies of at least three-fourths of the Democratic party. Me. Hendricks has made the Vice Presidency a mere commission-shop for soliciting patronage. He has patrolled the Government departments at Washington constantly since -the new administration came into power, filing applications for office and begging appointments for the balance of Democratic Hoosierdom. “I have a friend out in Indiana,” is said to be his uni- , form phraseology in importuning everybody who controls an appointment to v use it for his benefit. He has approached every foieign Minister who has been- appointed, asking that his “friend out in Indiana” shall be selected as secretary, clerk, or attendant of the Legation. He has made himself a nuisance and a scandal,and has brought the Vice Presidency into disrepute. He had better follow the example set by President Wheeler in his time, and by Mr. Arthur until he became 1 President. He should go a-fishing.—-Ex-change. - Postmasters who are Republican editors, and who exercised the privileges of American citizenship during the last campaign, may ao well pack up their effects. The Postmaster-General has issued a reward for their Official scalps. This is an administration that enforces the civil-service rules, and the first of these rules is that no man shall give utterance to other than Democratic sentiment'